"The cool thing about James Booker is that he mixed lowbrow and highbrow so well," says Meriam Benezra (MB). "He was an amazingly talented piano genius, but he threw in his own funk and style. Just like Ray Charles and Dr. John. He had this flamboyant persona and he was all glitter and chandeliers and bombast. He was a talent that’s now this local treasure, a musician’s musician. There was this story, I might have read it in OffBeat, where he came out on stage in a golden diaper, took out a g...